Selected Readings on the First and Second Indochina Wars
Introductory Readings
For a general introduction into the research of gender and war, see the Oxford Handbook of Gender, War and the Western World since 1600, edited by Karen Hagemann, Stefan Dudink and Sonya O. Rose (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2020). A general overview of the development of the research on gender and war can be found in its “Introduction: Gender and the History of War” by Karen Hagemann.
Part IV of the Handbook entitled “From the Global Cold War to the Conflicts of the Post–Cold War Era” includes several chapters dealing with gender and the Global Cold War. Chapter 26, “War and Gender: From the Global Cold War to the Conflicts of the Post–Cold War Era—an Overview” by Karen Hagemann and Sonya O. Rose offers a good introduction.
Further recommended readings from this chapter can be found in:
- the select bibliography of the chapter
- the extensive bibliography of the chapter
See also the handbook chapter:
- Branche, Raphaëlle “Gender, the Wars of Decolonization and the Decline of Empires after 1945.” In Oxford Handbook of Gender, War and the Western World since 1600, ed. by Karen Hagemann et al. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 677-97.
Many more titles you will find in GWonline. For our suggestions go here:
- Book Chapters and Journal Articles
- General Literature
- Literature on Gender, War & Revolution
- Methodological Introductions
Book Chapters and Journal Articles
- Landes, James. “Vietnam War and American Life.” In Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Twentieth-century Europe, ed. by Aaron Sheehan-Dean, vol. 2. 779–94. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2014.
- Mariscal, George. “Mexican Americans and the Viet Nam War.” In A Companion to the Vietnam War, ed. by Robert Buzzanco and Marilyn B. Young, 348–366. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002.
- Tischler, Barbara. “The Antiwar Movement.” In A Companion to the Vietnam War, ed. by Robert Buzzanco and Marilyn B. Young, 384–402. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002.
- Turner, Karen G. “‘Vietnam’ as a Women’s War.” In A Companion to the Vietnam War, ed. by Robert Buzzanco and Marilyn B. Young, 93–112. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002.
- Westheider, James. “African Americans and the Vietnam War.” In A Companion to the Vietnam War, ed. by Robert Buzzanco and Marilyn B. Young, 333–347. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002.
General Literature
- Buzzanco, Robert, and Marilyn Blatt Young. A Companion to the Vietnam War. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006.
- Hall, Mitchell K. The Vietnam War. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Kort, Michael. The Vietnam War Re-Examined. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Kutler, Stanley I. Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War. New York: Simon & Schuster Trade, 1996.
- Lawrence, Mark Atwood. The Vietnam War: A Concise International History. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Miller, Robert L., and Dennis Wainstock. Indochina and Vietnam: The Thirty-Five-Year War, 1940–1975. New York: Enigma Books, 2013.
- Thomas, Martin. The French Colonial Mind. 2 vols. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011.
- Ward, Geoffrey C., Ken Burns, and Lynn Novick. The Vietnam War: An Intimate History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
- Wexler, Sanford. The Vietnam War: An Eyewitness History. Oxford and New York: Facts on File, 1992.
- Young, Marilyn B., John J. Fitzgerald, and A. Tom Grunfeld. The Vietnam War: A History in Documents. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Literature on Gender & War
- Gruhzit-Hoyt, Olga. A Time Remembered: American Women in the Vietnam War. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1999.
- Guillemot, François. Des Vietnamiennes dans la Guerre Civile: L'Autre Moitié de la Guerre, 1945–1975. Paris: Les Indes savantes, 2014.
- Kotcher, Joann Puffer. Donut Dolly: An American Red Cross Girl’s War in Vietnam. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2011.
- Marshall, Kathryn. In the Combat Zone: An Oral History of American Women in Vietnam, 1966–75. Boston: Little, Brown, 1987.
- Norman, Elizabeth. Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.
- Stur, Heather Marie. Beyond Combat: Women and Gender in the Vietnam War Era. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- Turner-Gottschang, Karen, and Thanh Hao Phan.Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of War from North Vietnam. New York: Wiley, 1998.
- Vuic, Kara Dixon. Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
- Zeinert, Karen. The Valiant Women of the Vietnam War. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 2000.
Methodological Introductions
Women’s and Gender History
- Rose, Sonya O. What is Gender History? Cambridge: Polity Press 2010.
Military History
- Morillo, Stephen, and Michael F. Pavkovic. What is Military History? Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013.
Film History
- Thompson, Kristin and David Bordwell, Film History: An Introduction. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2003.
War in Film
- Chapman, James. War and Film. London: Reaktion, 2008.
Film Analysis
- Monaco, James. How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, and Beyond: Art, Technology, Language, History, Theory. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009 (4th ed., completely rev. and expanded).